What PUPPY programs are YOU using?

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What PUPPY programs are YOU using?

#1 Post by aahhaaa »

I guess this should really have been a poll, but there's quite a litter of included Puppy programs (not to mention pupgets) , and I couldn't figure out how to make an un-complex poll that included everything.

So: What programs included with Puppy do you use most?

What program (besides Open Office) isn't in Puppy that seems a must-have?

Have you actually explored the programs you aren't using?

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I say

#2 Post by klhrevolutionist »

Well as of right now I am really digging the pdf format, and all the linux
available tools to accompany pdf. So I say that we extend puppyPDF
for more pdf manipulation. Such as pdftotext for converting pdf to text.
Using pdftk for splitting, encrypting, "bursting" / extracting pdf, repairing pdf. And other uses that pdftk has as well.

Barry has done a great job on Abiword. So hopefully This too can be implemented. Thanks.
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Re: What PUPPY programs are YOU using?

#3 Post by edoc »

aahhaaa wrote: So: What programs included with Puppy do you use most?
From Puppy 1.0.4 (Haven't used 1.0.5 enough to address that fairly yet.)

Xine
Gimp
Mutt
Beaver
Mozilla
aahhaaa wrote: What program (besides Open Office) isn't in Puppy that seems a must-have?
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aahhaaa wrote: Have you actually explored the programs you aren't using?
Yes, many of them. CD burning was still highly unpredictable in 1.0.4, really need a decent financial management package that will interface with major products (Import & Export data), more comprehensive wireless esp. for devices needing ndiswrapper.

Love Puppy and am excited about exploring 1.0.5 (Just loaded on two laptops and a desktop), and am looking forward to 1.0.6 !

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Re: What PUPPY programs are YOU using?

#4 Post by dustypenguin »

Most used (In no particular order)

Gaim
Netscape
Trying Sylfeed Email (still not convinced that it is as good as Mozilla mail)
Open Office
LinNeighborhood

Window Managers: Icewm and Fluxbox (wish I had Windowmaker)

Checked out but not really using ...
Bluefish HTML editor -- used it in the past, but will be trying it out this weekend again to update my site.

Abiword. I know it is a glue app for puppy, but it has always been the sickly cousin to open office. MSWord docs sometimes do not import very nicely. Still, as a default for a small dist like puppy it is a good choice, and there is always a chubby puppy ;-)

The wireless network gui tools I could not get to work correctly ... can't figure out there is a network around after I load the drivers ... but I'm not opposed to writing a script and just running that when I connect!

What would be nice?
Some sort of wireless signal strength meter.
Windowmaker
Mozilla Thunderbird
A weather ticker type program (wmweather-like)

Overall, one can't argue too much with the choices that have been made, for there are good reasons for most.

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#5 Post by keenerd »

There is a wifi signal meter in Puppy. It will be automatically launched by the next version of WAG, but you can start it yourself in rvxt with

xwifibar -a -w 3 -i INTERFACE

Where interface is ath0 or eth1 or whatever your card uses. Mouse over the bar to get a text popup.

It has a lot of fun options, read the docs for all of them.
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wifi bar

#6 Post by dustypenguin »

Excellent! Thanks.

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#7 Post by peppyy »

In Puppy
ABI
MUT
MtPaint
ghostview
WAG, Can't wait for the update
Composer

pupget
XMMS
Firefox

Of course these depend on which puptop and version I am running at the moment.
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#8 Post by Lobster »

:arrow: Flock
:arrow: Sylpheed
:arrow: Leafpad
:arrow: Mtpaint
:arrow: NVU
:arrow: MUT
:arrow: Help
:arrow: Open Office 2
:arrow: Gkam
:arrow: Gimp
:arrow: Inkscape
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#9 Post by Pizzasgood »

Standard daily necessities I use:
Firefox
cd, rename, ls, cp, rm, mount, umount, gunzip, tar, unzip, mkdir
dotpup
IceWM
Rox

Other stuff I use a lot:
mplayer
stream tuner
xtmix
audacity
beaver/leafpad
dillo
wget
gftp
burniso2cd2

Stuff that should come standard:
Perl (or else wireless drivers)
burniso2cd2


I think that's all the important stuff. Now can we stop with all the "What do you use most" threads :roll: Just kidding. (Not really)
......Okay, I admit it, I just saw Dodgeball yesterday for the first time :roll:

EDIT: I mean the movie Dodgeball, just so nobody who hasn't heard of it gets confused. :)
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Since you said it

#10 Post by Ted_Dodge »

Pizzasgood wrote: Dodgeball yesterday for the first time :roll:
What!!! we learn to fear dodgeball when I was a young geek, what a perfect Friday in P.E.
Do they still have kids play this evil blood sport? :twisted:

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#11 Post by Pizzasgood »

Well, when I was back in elementary (around seven years ago now) we still played it, but with these squishy balls instead of kickballs. Maybe that's why I liked it so much :) I never realized it as a kid, but I was in pretty good shape. Especially for running. I was one of the only ones who actually ran in PE.

I kind of miss dodgeball now. If we tried playing it at my highschool, we'd probably get suspended. :roll: The closest we could come was when we played four-square in AP US History. (I'm not kidding. Fifteen eleventh-graders or so out in the parkinglot playing four-square. Those who didn't played hopscotch instead. And it wasn't about learning old games either. It was just for fun.)
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#12 Post by aahhaaa »

Catholic school for me; I remember just once they brought out a cageball (what, about 8' in diameter?) for us to try. The gym was a combo with the auditorium- big stage with velvet curtains. Yep- ball (with several kids sorta attached) went right into the curtains and pulled them down. Nobody hurt, but never saw that ball again. :D

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#13 Post by Auda »

What I use in some sort of order
Linneighborhood..............Auto-runs on boot up
Firefox...................................Every day
Sylpheed..............................Every day
Midnight Commander....Every day
Gaim......................................Its mostly running not that I use it much How would I make this auto-run on bootup ?
TightVNC............................Mostly running used quite often
Gxine ...................................For watching DVD's if the codecs were included /worked then I would watch the BBC on line
Gftp.........................................Several times a week
Beaver..................................Most days
Leafpad.................................Prefered this to beaver except it complains about wrong code page with some files so now I mostly use Breaver
Mtpaint..................................Once or twice a week
Gnumeric.............................Couple of times a month
Abiword................................Not very often but need I it when I do

I used to use um the cd burner in 0.9.8 dont like graveman, will it burn a bootable cd from a floppy image ? now I use windows for burning cds

I've look at some of the other programmes but dont realy have a use for them that I know of.
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#14 Post by MU »

> Gxine ...................................For watching DVD's if the codecs were included /worked then I would watch the BBC on line

Have you seen this?:
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=3133

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my use

#15 Post by menno »

Firefox -- every day
Sylpheed -- every day
rxvt -- every day (including things like ls mount etc.)
PCterm -- mostly (rxvt with dos character set)
leafpad -- every day (this is faster then beaver)
mp -- sometimes fast looking from inside rxvt/PCterm
TkZip -- often (This know more zip type's then guitar , such as .deb .pup )
Gftp -- often
Lampp -- often (Appache + PHP + PEU)
GCC -- often (C compiler + make)
G77 -- often (Fortran compiler + make)

Xgine -- mosty listen to radio .
Abi -- if somebody send me .doc file's
Planmaker -- for viewing .xls , .cvs file's
Gostview -- for viewing .pdf file's
Ploticus -- making simple plots to put on the webserver .
Cmaptools -- to make flowchart's
X11Basic -- to make short calulations (conversion hex-dec , oct-dec)
Tightvnc -- to help other to startup there machine's
PEU -- often , script languea I use in CGI applications .
PHP -- often , script languea I use in CGI applications .
httpd and gtkftp -- sometimes todo compatibility test .
MUT -- mosty

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#16 Post by Lobster »

How can we and is it worth providing fortran as a dotpup?
G77 -- often (Fortran compiler + make)
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#17 Post by aahhaaa »

Hi Auda! could you go to http://www.frappr.com/puppykennels and put yourself on the map? (if you want) curious to see if NZ is active... :D

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